How Capitalism Destroys Radical Movements

Movements like Black Lives Matter often start out as radical demands for change, but someone along the way they get consumed, defanged, and turned into meaningless symbols. How does this happen?

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Citations and Further Reading

Guy Debord/The Spectacle/Recuperation
   • Society of the Spectacle: WTF? Guy Debord,...  
   • Society of the Spectacle (Part 2): WTF? Re...  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Debord
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuper...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectac...)
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/report.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Report_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officia...
https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816818759231
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra...
http://dl.uncw.edu/Etd/2012-1/perdued... https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/dow...

Black Lives Matter & Defund the Police
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/...
https://cfo.dc.gov/sites/default/file...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...
https://web.archive.org/web/202006220...
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-upd...
https://dcist.com/story/20/08/18/dc-m...
https://newrepublic.com/article/15810...
https://polsci.umass.edu/sites/defaul...
https://breachmedia.ca/beware-the-neo...
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/212...
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/02/po...
https://dcist.com/story/20/08/14/blac...
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/dep...

Antonio Gramsci & Hegemony
   • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci ...  
https://warofposition.com/94

Capitalist Realism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital...

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